Philosophy

Throughout the Heroin helper website, you will see our
political philosophy coloring the content. Although most
people would consider our philosophy extremist and even
dangerous (as if anything could be as
dangerous as the collectivist thought that has dominated
the twentieth century), it is nothing new. It used to
be called liberalism, but today we call it
libertarianism since the term liberalism has
been taken by one of the dominant socialist philosophies
of today.

The Purpose of Government

The government has only one valid purpose: to protect
the property of individuals from injury by another. Here
we define property broadly, to include a
person's body. So laws against murder, assault, and
theft are acceptable. Laws against drug use, prostitution,
and gambling are not.

We Are Evil People

One issue that people will find hardest to accept is our
position on the protection of children.
We do not think that the government
has a right to treat children differently from
adults.
(1)
Just as adults, children should be protected from
non-consensual harm. But the government should not pass laws
designed to make society the parents of a child.

Turning Kids into Alcoholics

The best example of this is alcohol sales. The way the current
laws are, a business that sells liquor cannot sell liquor to
people under 21 years of age. In effect, the law is stating
that it is the business' responsibility to raise the child
"properly" (the government's idea of what this is).
This is ridiculous.

Where Are Your Parents Little Boy?

It is the child's parent who is responsible for seeing that
the child does not drink alcohol--if that is the way the
parent thinks the child should be raised. Not the store
owner's. But people have lived so long in a world where businesses
are legislated, that it is now thought to be the only
way a civilized society runs.

Real Civilization

The fact of the matter is that most store owners would not
sale alcohol to minors anyway; most people share the predominant
morals of the society. That is a sign of a civilized
society. Punishing those who don't agree is just a sign that
the government thinks its people are uncivilized. The only
thing truly uncivilized is our government and the way it treats
the people it is supposed to serve.

My Freedom's Good, Your Freedom's Bad

Most people fear our political philosophy because they do
not trust others to act "responsibly" (which is just a
euphemism for "the way I would"). But these same people
think that the government will act responsibly, despite
all the evidence to the contrary. Ironically, most people
who fear liberty believe in supporting "diversity".
(2)
It doesn't take a lot of thinking to realize that the only
way to promote diversity is to promote tolerance--tolerance
of people who don't think as we do.

We do not think
that a society based upon our philosophy would be perfect.
It would have problems just like any applied philosophy. But
history is clear: the more freedom a society has, the happier
and more prosperous are the people. The more control a
government has, the more repressive it is to its people.

Notes

Perhaps the most outrageous "right" the government claims is
the right to define a child. What's more, they aren't even
consistent: children are people under 18 when smoking cigarettes;
children are people under 21 when drinking alcohol; children are
people under 18 when voting; children are people of any age when
using heroin.

This brings up an obvious question: if the government doesn't
decide, when would we know how old a child must be before it can
leave its parents? There would be no legal concept of "child" in
our favored society. The child has full rights as soon as it leaves
the mother's womb. "So a five-year-old could just decide he doesn't
like his parents and leave home?" You bet! Any more questions?

I quoted "diversity" because most people hate real
diversity. The word has come to mean people of different ethnic
backgrounds who wear different clothes, but who are in every other
way exactly like us (whoever we are). Here in the great
USA, freedom means the right to change the hat on your head, not
the thoughts in your head.